Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-12
meeting would be a laughing.st stock to
the public, the leaders would be dis
credited by even their own ilk, and

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the public, the leaders would be dis
credited by even their own ilk, and
THE RUHE-sIGNAL
would mean not the "social revolu-
ton" begun, but the International AS
sociation collapsed.
Fielden was worthy of the occasion.
He had been in the background on
the wagon with Schnaubelt, the bomb
tbrower, Spies and other directing
minds, who saw plainly that some
thing must be done, and quickly,
Therefore, when his turn came, Field
en- stepped boldly to the front, dis
carding all pretense of mildness. He
electrified the rabble at once. The crowd
swayed excitedly backward and for
ward in the narrow shadowy confines
of Desplaines street, into which they
had come from the open square, and
pressed eagerly closer to the Pickering
gas-lamp that lighted the speakers
sbaggily-bearded face and powerful
form. When he tragically urged the
wrought-up mob, standing in plain
view of police station, to throttle
and kill the law" the disgui- ed Off
GERS in the crowd saw the necessity OF
PROMPT ACTION,
And word was passed to their COM
mander.
Captain Bonfeld, following the plain
directions of the State law covering
exactly such cases, gave orders to
have the meeting dispersed. Seven
com panies oil police, l75 men, led by
himself and Captain Ward, marched
in platoons, extending from curb to
curb. the short distance on Desplaines
street from the station to the speak
er's wagon. AS the police approached,
Fielden shouted to the crowd: !:
"Here comes the blood-hounds. You
do your duty and I'll do mine" Cap
tain Ward, in a loud voice, called out:
'In the name of the people OF the
State of Illinois, | command you to
peaceably disperse." Fielden stepped
down from the wagon, and gave the
"ruhe" explanation: 1--WE are peace
able" Instantly the bomb was
thrown, the first in free America.
A spLUTTERING SPARK
In the air, on the ground binding
burst-that was all. Blackness was
everywhere. The cracking of the
pistol-shots out from the mob-jammed
sidewalks, few tall forms in the
street rapidly closing together,
the flash and smoke of volley after
volley from them and the rear pla-
toons was heard, then the din became
hideous with the groaning OF mangled
men, and the yells of rage and fear IN
the wild scramble for escape.
THE SEQUEL
Has stretched out to-day. Foremost
it includes the death of seven bomb
slain police and the slow recovery OF
sixty officers wounded. The immedl-
ate arrest of all the chief malefactors,
barring Parsons alone, was followed
by their prompt arraignment for muir
der June 2lst, before Judge Joseph K.
Gary, who proved himself as able as
he is worthy. The escape Of Schnau-
belt, the actual thrower of the bomb,
who was set free before his importance
had been suspected, was blunder
only equaled by the mistake on the
opposite side when Parsons made his
sensational voluntary surrender.
THE FIRST DAY IN COURT.
Two months precisely was the
length of the trial, engrossing from
day to day the attention of the civil
lied world. Whatever legal talent
could do was exhausted by the de-
f-nse under the direction of Captain
Black. while States Attorney Grin
nell directed the prosecution with
SIX IL reaching every point.
Death sentences for all but Neehe,
and the penitentiary for him; the
tour of American cities by European
Socialists, Liebknecht, the German
parliamentarian, and Aveling, the
English scientist, in an attempt to
give prestige to the condemned
and gain sympathy for them the ef-
fort to make sentimentalism have an
effect through the ostentatious love-
making Of Spies and Miss Van Zandt
and their subsequent proxy marriage
all these followed each other in
rapid succession. Next came the in
PRODUCTION of the Ana chists' cause as
an issue in Chicago politics, resulting
in the crushing
DEFEAT OF THE RED FLAG
Advocates. Abraham Lincoln's ex-
partner, Leonard SWEET, presenting
the defendants case to the Supreme
Court of Illinois created new sensa-
ton, but his efforts were no more ef-
fective than subsequent ones for the
''reds" by General Butler, Roger Pry-
or and j. Randolph Tucker before the
highest court OF the nation. George
Francis Train and his queer exploits
were in singular contrast with the
grave legal proceedings and the bitter
struggles in the trades unions.
The splits caused by friends of the
condemned in two of the greatest
brotherhoods in the world-knights
of Labor and Turners-have had far
reaching affects, but the attention of
the people at large has been much
more strongly arrested by the events
of the past few days. Beginning with
Parsons extraordinary demand for
liberty complete or death, and Spies
equally surprising appeal for a little
lease OF life, everything seems to have
combined, if possible, to make this
period exceed in worldwide interest
the days Of the Haymarket massacre.
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